Top 100 Take Quotes
#1. I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan
#2. Antsy, adj.
I swore I would never take you to the opera again.
David Levithan
#3. I just need time to catch my breath before you take it away again.
Tawny Cypress
#4. The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)
Mary Roach
#5. No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.
E.B. White
#6. This passage, in fact, makes strikingly clear that both at the level of ontogenesis (the development of the child) and phylogenesis (the development of the human species) mimesis, for Nietzsche, precedes language and allows communication to take place.
Nidesh Lawtoo
#7. You can make a thousand promises to yourself that you'll take that same fantastic love and give it to someone else, but the moment you see that person with someone else, it's like a gut full of razorblades. It never gets easier. And it shouldn't, really.
Corey Taylor
#8. It's not how hard of a punch you can throw, it's how hard of a punch you can take.
Seamus McGraw
#9. Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
R. Lee Ermey
#10. Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing. Only
George Saunders
#11. None of us ever thought to write a song about all the shit that was going on back then: war, revolution, civil war, turmoil. Our songs were trying to take you someplace else.
Levon Helm
#12. If you told me to cry for you
I could
If you told me to die for you
I would
Take a look at my face
There's no price I won't pay
To say these words to you
Jon Bon Jovi
#13. I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.
Tom Lehrer
#14. Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.
Mike Krzyzewski
#15. I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.
Lawrence Welk
#16. Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,
that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand.
Sanjay Kumar
#18. As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.
Marin Ireland
#19. They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#20. Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it ... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.
Katharine Hepburn
#21. Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take.
Jami Attenberg
#22. Balance The Stress Factor The Beauty of Mental Space Emotional Intelligence Take A Breath Negative Emotions Time and Priorities Boundaries A Culture of Wellness
Sharon Salzberg
#23. Photographers and people do try to take advantage of you. You just have to stand your ground and prove you're not an easy target.
Terry Farrell
#24. I'll call you. Take care." And he was gone. So the rain comes down hard outside my room, and like Eddie Cohen," I say, "... fifteen thousand years - - - of what? We're still nothing but animals.
Sylvia Plath
#25. People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.
Terry Bradshaw
#26. When the goal seems difficult to reach, take a break but never give up.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#27. ITs not the number of breaths you take, but the number of time you experience something that takes your breath away, that defines your life.
David J. Murray
#28. It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
Colley Cibber
#29. It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire.
Evan Osnos
#30. If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
James Russell Lowell
#31. If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.
John Wooden
#33. No one makes it to the "top" by themselves. Each step you take is guided by at least one person's blood, sweat and tears. Appreciate those who stand behind you as you rise. They are the only ones who will catch you if you fall. The ladder of success is steadiest when someone's there to support it.
Carlos Wallace
#34. Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
Alfred De Musset
#35. You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
Saint Augustine
#36. Do not resent her. Think about the situation, for instance, when you take the last trash bag from its box: you must throw out the box by putting it in that very trash bag. What was once contained, now must contain. The container, then, becomes the contained, the enveloped, the held.
Lorrie Moore
#37. The windows were boarded up, allowing in no light. "I take it this isn't your apartment."
"You think I'd take you to my home?"
"Hope springs eternal.
Anne Stuart
#38. Take a chance - it's the best way to test yourself, have fund and push boundaries.
Richard Branson
#39. be cleansed of that which is injurious to man and detracteth from his high station - among which is to take undue pleasure in one's own words and deeds, notwithstanding their unworthiness. True
Bahai Pubishing
#40. There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority interest and make it accessible without dumbing it down. I'm such an enthusiast for peculiar things, things that are perhaps a bit avant-garde, and try and involve everyone.
Lee Hall
#41. Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.
Shannon L. Alder
#42. In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.
Molly Tarlov
#43. In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates
Michel Foucault
#44. Take encouragement from how far you've come, not how far you have left to go.
Debra Searle
#45. I think every person in a group has a right to protest something and not like something. I always find it to be interesting when people take that position before they've seen it.
Ryan T. Murphy
#46. I went in for a checkup, and when my doctor had me stand on the scale, even he was surprised. Seeing that number (which I'll take to the grave) was a turning point. I knew I needed to make a change. I cut out white flour and starches and worked with my doctor and a nutritionist to develop a plan.
Adam Richman
#47. There are so many things that can take a person somewhere else, but none of those things ever happened to me,
Jennifer Egan
#48. Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
Karen Allen
#49. When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Malcolm Forbes
#50. Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.
Sara Teasdale
#51. If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?
Charles Spurgeon
#52. The best leaks always take place in the urinal.
John Cole
#53. A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
Alanis Morissette
#54. I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.
Zoe Kazan
#55. The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#56. The disposition of the heart is man's, but the preparation of the tongue is the Lord's." [Prov. 16:1, 9, conflated.] It is an absurd folly that miserable men take it upon themselves to act without God, when they cannot even speak except as he wills!
John Calvin
#57. Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.
Mian Muhammad Mansha
#58. Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
Debbie Ford
#59. One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
Karl Kraus
#60. I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.
Greg Maddux
#61. The common breeds the common,
A lout begets a lout,
So when I take on half a score
I knock their heads about.
William Butler Yeats
#62. She's like a fix to an addiction. I thought if I had a taste, I'd want it less, but fuck me, all I can think of is more. Take more, want more, feel more, need more.
K. Bromberg
#63. Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But I don't really have it on my to-do list when I write a book. It just evolves naturally during the process of immersing yourself in a subject.
Mary Roach
#64. Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
Shoshana Zuboff
#65. It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
Rowan Atkinson
#66. I don't just like to have 1 take, but not too many. I think it is good to keep it alive.
Clive Owen
#67. The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.
Charles Dickens
#68. It's time for you to move on and realize that there is so much more to your life than what you see. Let go of your past and never re-live it again. You must take a leap of faith and take hold of all the Amazing and Beautiful things you deserve in life!
Theresa Lewis
#69. Above all, film is a business ... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
Mel Gibson
#70. Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
Viktor E. Frankl
#71. Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.
William Stanley Jevons
#72. Our first time will be what you want, what you fantasize about. I'm going to take you, right here, right now.
Aleatha Romig
#73. I'm always ready to step up and take that shot.
Ray Allen
#74. if I take much more, you will begin to change. And
L.J.Smith
#75. As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#76. Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road.
Tamara L. Chilver
#77. When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
Aaron Neville
#78. Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.
Julius Nyerere
#79. When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew up in, the result is you always had family around to take care of you.
Atul Gawande
#80. The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.
Robin Roberts
#81. Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.
James Madison
#82. You do not have to be so serious about everything and everyone. Trust yourself. Trust your own guidance and do not take everyone's 'interesting opinions' so personally.
Raphael Zernoff
#83. I'm going to retire undefeated. I'll take everybody out one-by-one then go on my merry way
Ronda Rousey
#84. Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#85. Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
Lyn Nofziger
#86. People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.
Lee Hazlewood
#87. Take her away; for she hath lived too long,
To fill the world with vicious qualities.
William Shakespeare
#88. And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take them and find meaning in them, or put music behind them, or turn them aside because they were not what was needed.
Ally Condie
#89. If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
Biz Stone
#90. When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that we carry with us forever. If we're lucky, if we're very, very lucky, the person we fall in love with will always resemble that snapshot.
Jim Geoghan
#91. If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning.
Gao Xingjian
#92. If that is wisdom, then I will never be wise. I do not want a life that has no place for you in it. You will come back with me and take the place that is yours in my heart. No obligations to the past stand in the way. We will marry.
Addis de Valence
Madeline Hunter
#93. Did you know?" I snarled. "Did you help take my father and corrupt my life?
Oliver Bowden
#94. I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.
Norah Jones
#95. It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
C.L.R. James
#96. You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.
Ibn Warraq
#97. What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal ... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#98. Great decisions often take no more than a moment in the making.
Hugh Lofting
#100. Maybe thats because we take criticism best from those we love and those who love us-Ethan
V.C. Andrews
